How Flawed Politicians Use Us As Their Therapy Animals
“The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.” So wrote Victorian essayist Isaac D’Israeli, neatly presaging his son’s political career. Benjamin Disraeli, twice Prime Minister of Britain, would both achieve greatness and reveal enough flaws to satisfy a confederacy of dunces.
Great leaders never really die. They wait patiently in their graves, ready to serve again if the country they loved, or the cause they espoused, is threatened anew. So it is with Abraham Lincoln, arguably the greatest statesman of all time.
Lincoln was an exceptional, almost mystical being. He dealt…
The question of how we emerge from the Covid-19 crisis grows in urgency with each passing day and additional death.
The most dangerous way out would surely be via a global sigh of relief, followed by the frenzied resumption of business as usual and a refusal to learn anything from…
